The Little Lady of the Horse

Old Sutro and young Steenie were where they might have been found on almost every day at the same hour,--down on the beach, where the great cañon cut through the _mesa_ to the sea.

“There, she’s found it out! And it’s a deal worse than if her papa had told her first off!” said Suzan´, at the kitchen door. “I never saw Miss Steenie cry about anything before...

There was some suspicion among the other dwellers at Santa Felisa that Kentucky Bob had once been employed about a real circus, else how had he acquired that intimate knowledge...

Before the entertainment really began, Sutro Vives gave a little private exhibition on his own account; and his dashings to and fro across the arena, directly in Lord Plunkett’s...

Some days later a very weary gentleman in blue goggles and a restless little girl in queer attire, occupying a section of a railway sleeper, heard the welcome announcement of th...

“My-soul-I-declare! you here? Don’t ye know Madam don’t ’low nobody to tetch her books?” almost shouted Resolved Tubbs, entering the library on the morning following “Mr. Daniel...

Steenie had little difficulty in retracing her way along the avenue as far as that old street of the town on which her grandmother’s house stood; but she stopped, confused.

The former in the full glory of his holiday Mexican costume, looking a little the worse for a long journey; the latter in exuberant spirits over his release from the car which h...

But they were all brave-hearted, having that one quality in common; and so, even while suffering most acutely, Madam found that the feeling she had experienced in regard to her...

However, the Judge quickly aroused from the inaction his terror had caused, and, leaping over the paling, would have followed this childish horse “breaker,” had he been allowed....

Steenie stood perfectly still, too perplexed to even try to understand what “ruin” meant; till, after awhile, her father lifted his head and released her from this, to her terri...

“Clerk? No, no! No. _Por Dios!_ No. Thinkest thou that I would give such knowledge as I shall make known to the winds? It is a secret, I tell thee. A secret!”

“My dear, suppose you let our friend Sutro, here, ride home and tell your people that I am going to keep you for dinner? Then they will not be anxious, and we will have leisure...

For a time nobody said anything more. Then Madam Calthorp resumed, but in a very kindly and sympathetic tone: “Yes, my darling, we can no longer indulge in any luxury.”

Mr. Tubbs sat with his spectacles in place, his Bible on his knee; and Steenie, peering in at the kitchen-door and seeing it otherwise deserted, would speedily have retreated, h...

“What? What is this?” Judge Courtenay looked incredulously around; and there was Steenie clasping her arms about the neck of a tall stranger who had knelt upon the stable floor,...

“’Tain’t no sech a thing!” retorted Resolved, testily. Yet he advanced to peep over his sister’s shoulder at this startling phenomenon; then he pushed his spectacles up out of p...